Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Full Holler. Characteristically, the British press, until a few weeks ago reviling Ike as a senescent, bewildered man ("a man who can hardly perform his day-to-day tasks," said Beaverbrook's Express last April), now turned full-holler the other way round. Under the headline...
...judge by his treatment in the mercurial British press, Adenauer was right in his fear of being isolated as a peace disturber just because he warned against the "artificial euphoria" that might result from Khrushchev's visit. The London press attacked him in the same vein as Pravda does. "This man is dangerous," huffed Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. "The policy of Dr. Adenauer would lead to war." To Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail, "the self-important old chancellor" was reminiscent of "a bullfrog who puffed himself up until he burst...
...British Hints. Britain's suspicious mood reflected economic divisions as well as political differences. Watching the steady growth of economic ties and the nascent sense of "European identity" in the six Common Market nations, Britain increasingly feels itself odd man out in Western Europe, and considers this not the result of British unwillingness to pay the price of European membership but the fault of Adenauer's and De Gaulle's alliance. Prime Minister Macmillan, seeing Ike alone at Chequers, was expected to spend some of his time deploring not Khrushchev's behavior but De Gaulle...
...south is the emptiness of the Tanezrouft-the "thirst country" of the central Sahara -where France will most likely test its late starter in the atomic race: a model T bomb too big for their airplanes and too crude even to compare with recent generations of U.S., British and Russian nuclear devices. Knowing their first bomb to be primitive, the French are anxious not so much to catch up with other atomic powers overnight as to capture political prestige by becoming Member No. 4 of the exclusive "nuclear club...
...elementary fact periodically brings out the detective in some critics and biographers. Treating a book as a case to be solved, the literary sleuth scours the author's life for telltale clues. With the instincts of Scotland Yard's finest, George D. Painter, a curator of the British Museum, has now tackled the massive Proust case. His findings may strike some readers as anticlimactic. It appears that Marcel Proust based Remembrance of Things Past on his remembrance of things past...